The Recovery Playbook: Conversations about Addiction & Recovery
The Menninger Clinic's podcast series for anyone in recovery, featuring Daryl I. Shorter, MD, medical director for Menninger's Addictions & Recovery Medicine Center, and Ryan Leaf, a recovery advocate and college and professional football analyst. Each month they'll discuss relevant topics on the minds of individuals, family and friends, and treatment providers. They'll talk about what’s new in recovery today, sticking points that affect relationships, coping with adversity, and breakthroughs in treatment and policy matters.
The Recovery Playbook: Conversations about Addiction & Recovery
When Do You Know You Need Help
Welcome to The Recovery Playbook, Menninger’s YouTube series featuring Daryl I. Shorter, MD, medical director for the Menninger Addictions & Recovery Medicine Center, and Ryan Leaf, who is The Clinic's Ambassador in Recovery and a college and professional football analyst.
Each month, they discuss relevant recovery topics on the minds of individuals, family and friends, and treatment providers alike. They look at what’s new in substance-use recovery today, sticking points that affect relationships, coping with adversity, and breakthroughs in treatment and policy matters.
Their goal is to elevate conversation about real issues of substance use and addictions. Join us each month as Dr. Shorter and Leaf open The Recovery Playbook.
Episode 4: When Do You Know You Need Help?
You don't have to hit rock bottom before getting help for a substance use disorder or alcohol use disorder. In fact, there may be big clues about the need to seek treatment long before hitting rock bottom.
In this episode of The Recovery Playbook, Dr. Shorter and Leaf discuss what those big clues might look like and why you should pay attention to them.
Leaf says, "I couldn't do it on my own; I had to be intervened with." According to Dr. Shorter, "One of the barriers to accessing care or getting treatment is this belief that you have to do it on your own." Yet there are lots of ways, including medication and psychotherapy, in which to approach recovery.
The duo also discuss how stigma continues to be a barrier to treatment and point out that many people view the treatment of medical disorders differently from the treatment of substance use disorders. It's this refusal to acknowledge the medical origins of addiction that helps perpetuate the stigma.
They also explore the concept of pre-addiction, a relatively new idea within the field of addiction psychiatry.
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